Publications by authors named "C Brasseux"

Background: The in-hospital postpartum period is a critical opportunity for health care providers to enhance maternal understanding of newborn care, yet few studies have determined whether health care providers' educational priorities match those of new mothers.

Objective: To document how well pediatricians' perceptions of educational priorities for counseling about care of the newborn match those of new mothers during the postpartum hospitalization, and to determine whether pediatricians' actual counseling practices reflected maternal priorities.

Design: Cross-sectional study of perceived educational needs with direct observation of pediatrician counseling practices.

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Objective: To determine the prevalence and reasons for complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) use among children in primary pediatric care practice in the Washington, DC area.

Design: Cross-sectional survey of parents at 4 Children's National Medical Center Pediatric Research Network (PRN) practices from July 1998 through November 1998. Survey information included demographics, child health problems, satisfaction with health care, and CAM use over the past year.

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Background And Purpose: Many pediatric patients with neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF-1) have an apparent increased thickness of the corpus callosum (CC) on sagittal T1-weighted images compared with patients not affected by NF-1. In this study, we compared the surface area of the CC in children with NF-1 with that of healthy pediatric control subjects to determine if this was another common intracranial manifestation of NF-1.

Methods: Midsagittal T1-weighted MR images of 43 consecutive children with NF-1 and 43 age- and gender-matched healthy control subjects were reviewed retrospectively.

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This descriptive study examined the relationship between head size, developmental functioning, and neuroimaging findings in children with absolute microcephaly. Subjects, aged 1 to 48 months, were assigned to one of two groups based on occipitofrontal head circumference (OFC). Group A included subjects with an OFC of 2 to 2.

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Background: Pediatricians spend a significant amount of time on the telephone but receive little formal training in telephone management skills. We found only two previous reports in the literature using a randomized controlled trial (RCT) that documented the effectiveness of a telephone management program for residents.

Methods: The goals of this pilot study were (1) to provide second year pediatric residents (PL-2s) an experimental telephone management educational program, using a standardized patient (SP); (2) to assess the PL-2s' affective skills and ability to address relevant content on a series of simulated telephone calls; and (3) to determine whether feedback to the experimental group would improve their telephone management skills.

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